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Re: Spinning Lady

It's a left brain/right brain thing is how it is explained. Depending on which side of the brain you're using to view it, you'll see it differently.

I had to post it to get some varying opinions because I was having a hard time believing people could see it differently.

I'm pretty sure I did switch my perception of it for a short bit as I was scrolling the original email it was attached in. But afterwards I couldn't repeat that which got me doubting my own thoughts on it!

As for the idea about concentrating on the bottom and the foot and shadow, that would be similar to how I think I got it to switch before because I was reading text under the pic and only that part was viewable. I thought maybe it was because I was switching 'brain' gears and reading that forced the change. Maybe when you focus on a tiny area and really try and analyze just a small section, it causes you to use a different part of your brain.

-Bball

Nuntius was right. I was wrong. Frank Vogel has retained his job.

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"A player who makes a team great is more valuable than a great player. Losing yourself in the group, for the good of the group, thatís teamwork."

Re: Spinning Lady

OK.... for me... with two of these spinning ladies side by side the effect is easier to see. Just seeing two of them seems to cause things to look different...
If not, focus only one of them and try and just keep the other all but out of view or concentration.

Sometimes they seem to start in another direction and then back the other way. Sometimes they'll continue in the other direction.

Try scrolling the web page and see if that affects you as well.

Unlike the link that Twes provided, these above are the ORIGINAL images with no lines added to alter perception. They are both identical and neither has been altered in any way.

EDIT: OK... I realize I need to step away from the computer... BUT... If I put my mouse pointer over to the right, at the edge of the blue text portion of the screen, and then focus my attention on it while I move the pointer itself right/left and/or up and down... or around... I can see the spinning lady change directions in the corner of my eye. Sometimes she'll continue for a while in the new direction when I look back at her. Other times she'll go back to the clockwise direction that is the way I usually see her.

-Bball

Last edited by Bball; 03-06-2008 at 09:05 PM.

Nuntius was right. I was wrong. Frank Vogel has retained his job.

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"A player who makes a team great is more valuable than a great player. Losing yourself in the group, for the good of the group, thatís teamwork."

Re: Spinning Lady

Hmmm I must be a super genius because I can switch her at will. I can alter the twins to synch, alternate, or just go around in a figure 8... never making a full 360. Though I CAN'T get a figure 8 and a 360... odd.